petek, 14. februar 2014

Gordon Ramsay's chocolate soufflé / Čokoladni sufle

The day when everything screams hearts, roses, sarcastic comments made by single people, strawberries, red and pink, men jokes and disappointed girls, is here. Valentine's Day. I like our approach to this day. We don’t give a f***. Our philosophy about everything is: AS LITTLE STRESS AS POSSIBLE. There is no pressure to buy gifts, plan surprises, no corny bears and other unnecessary junk. Bit I do like to cook or bake something, since I started writing a blog.

I bought these classic white cups for chocolate soufflé one year ago and today I used them for the first time! I really wanted to finally try to make this classic chocolate dessert. Today was a perfect reason to do it. They were perfect! Instead of feeling all stressed out, just bake something for Christ’s sake! Another good and simple idea for Valentine's Day is a chocolate fondue with strawberries. Food is love, passion, affection.

The process
Grease cups with butter, grate a couple of pieces of chocolate and grated chocolate sprinkle on the greased cups walls.
Preheat oven to 200 ° C.
In a saucepan, heat milk, butter, cornstarch, flour - on low heat and mix with a whisk, so you can get rid of any lumps.
When it becomes thick turn off the fire, remove from heat and add pieces of chocolate, mix with a whisk , so that all chocolate melts.
Add 3 egg yolks, make sure that the chocolate is cooled, because the temperature affects the yolks. With a whisk slowly stir well. Add drops of rum extract or vanilla extract.
Beat egg whites : beat 3 egg whites and slowly add 50g granulated sugar.
With a spatula, slowly fold this whites puff in the chocolate mass. Pour the mass into prepared cups, slide your finger across the edge of the cups, so your soufflé will rise.
Place cups in baking dish so you can easily take it out of the oven when it’s done.
The original recipe says you have to bake them for 6 min, but I baked them 15min ( after 6 minutes everything was still liquid state. Depending also on the size of cups , if you have a larger ones, bake longer).
And Voila! You will get a light soufflé that will be liquid inside.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar, serve.
You can probably prepare at least 8 of these mini cups souffles.